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Reznick, J. Steven; Bauer, Patricia J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2008
In "The Foundations of Mind," Jean Mandler describes how perceptual analysis provides a mechanism that allows infants to begin their journey into conceptual life, and subsequently to enter the advanced worlds of conceptual systems, memory, language, and consciousness. This review provides an overview of Mandler's theoretical position, celebrates…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Child Development, Schemata (Cognition), Infants
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Werker, Janet F.; Hall, D. Geoffrey; Fais, Laurel – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2004
U-shaped developmental functions, and their N-shaped cousins, have intrigued developmental psychologists for decades because they provide a compelling demonstration that development does not always entail a monotonic increase across age in a single underlying ability. Instead, the causes of development are much more complex. Indeed,…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Individual Development, Cognitive Development, Child Development
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Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2004
When a behavior disappears and then resurfaces, developmental psychologists typically look more closely at the behavior to figure out what is different before and after--that is, they increase the grain with an eye toward discovering how the system that generates that behavior has changed. But what ought to count as a U-shaped phenomenon? How…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Individual Development, Cognitive Development, Child Development
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Cashon, Cara H.; Cohen, Leslie B. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2004
The development of the "inversion" effect in face processing was examined in infants 3 to 6 months of age by testing their integration of the internal and external features of upright and inverted faces using a variation of the "switch" visual habituation paradigm. When combined with previous findings showing that 7-month-olds use integrative…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Individual Development, Cognitive Development, Child Development
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Marcovitch, Stuart; Lewkowicz, David J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2004
The articles in this collection consider one very interesting puzzle of development: U-shaped developmental functions. At some point during development, an organism might exhibit what seems like a regression from its expected developmental trajectory and, according to continuity models of development, this is aberrant. In this special issue,…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Individual Development, Cognitive Development, Child Development
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Siegler, Robert S. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2004
Interest in U-shaped development has itself undergone a U-shaped progression. Twenty-five years ago, interest in U-shaped development was high. This interest was evident at a 1978 conference in Tel Aviv on "U-shaped Behavioral Growth" that resulted in the publication of a book of the same title 4 years later (Strauss, 1982). The breadth…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Individual Development, Cognitive Development, Child Development
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Muir, Darwin; Hains, Sylvia – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2004
It has been 20 years since Bever's (1982) and Strauss and Stavy's (1982) books on U-shaped functions in human development were published. The three target articles in this issue describe several old and new U-shaped functions and new theoretical explanations for their existence. In this article, the authors will comment on two aspects of U-shaped…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Individual Development, Cognitive Development, Child Development